Chicago Live! Almanac: 1938

Chicago Live! Almanac: 1938

Rick Kogan presents a new Almanac each week on the Chicago Live! stage. Watch this week's Almanac and then test your Chicago history knowledge with our weekly quiz. Find more historical photos and videos below.

Rick Kogan remembers 1938: I see dead people...in my dreams and in my waking world. I see her, in the efforts and hopes of black children learning to read and to write...I see her, Gwendolyn Brooks, the great poet. I see him, in the hands of a young architect trying to draw a city in which we all can live in warm and happy homes...I see him, Frank Lloyd Wright, the great architect. | Full text >>